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BRASIL TELECOM S.A.
Publicly Traded Company
Corporate Taxpayer Registration: 76.535.764/0001 -43
Board of Trade: 53 3 0000622 9

EXTRACT OF THE MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
BRASIL TELECOM S.A. OF JANUARY 29, 2008.

On January 29, 2008, at 10.15, the members of the Company’s Board of Directors, Messrs. Sergio Spinelli Silva Junior, Pedro Paulo Elejalde de Campos, Elemér André Surányi, Antonio Cardoso dos Santos, Ricardo Ferraz Torres and Kevin Michael Altit met at the headquarters of Brasil Telecom Participações S.A. (“Company”), at SIA SUL – ASP, Lote D, Bloco B, in the city of Brasília, Federal District, and unanimously decided: To summon an Annual and Extraordinary BT Shareholders Meeting to be held on March 18, 2008, at 12.00 p.m., to resolve on the following matters: Annual Shareholders Meeting: (i) To verify the management accounts and examine, discuss and vote on the Financial Statements and the Management Report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007; (ii) To decide on the year’s net income allocation and dividend distribution; and (iii) To elect the sitting and alternate members of the Fiscal Council and establish the individual compensation of its members; (iv) To elect the sitting and alternate members of the Company’s Board of Directors; and (v) To resolve on the election of the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors. Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting: (i) To establish the global compensation of the Company’s management. b) To approve the hiring of a supplier for the maintenance of the Brasil Telecom S.A. network; c) To approve Guarantees to the BNDES financing to 14 Brasil Telecom Celular S.A. The Company’s Board of Directors approved the management accounts, Financial Statements and the Management Report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007; net income allocation and dividend distribution for the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2007; and the proposal for the global compensation of the Company’s management to be submitted to the Shareholders Meeting. I certify that the aforementioned resolutions were extracted from the minutes registered in the Company’s Minute Book of the Board of Directors’ Meetings.

Brasília, January 29, 2008.

Darwin Corrêa
Secretary

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